Kôju Murata

第五列の恐怖

Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Koji Nakata, Yukiko Todoroki

仇討選手

Tomu Uchida

Isuzu Yamada, Denjirō Ōkōchi

Lost film, directed by Tomu Uchida. This film is a very funny comedy that makes fun of the moral code of the samurai Bushido, which has become obsolete and turned into an empty form during the period of feudalism.

海を渡る祭礼

Hiroshi Inagaki

Haruyo Ichikawa, Fujiko Fukamizu

There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and teachers gather from all over the country, including sesame oil sellers and organ grinders. The day before the festival, trouble arises with some horses.

警察官

Tomu Uchida

Eiji Nakano, Isamu Kosugi

Itami, a young policeman, meets his high school friend, Tetsuo, a gangster, at a roadblock. As they rekindled their friendship, a complex relationship is established between them.

霧笛

Minoru Murata

Eiji Nakano, Ichirō Sugai

Chiyokichi, a young man, hates Cooper, a white man who looks down on the Japanese. Chiyokichi picks Cooper’s pocket and is caught. He is brought to Cooper’s house and becomes his slave, and a riveting tale of passion, hatred, and revenge unfolds.

三本指の男

Sadatsugu Matsuda

Chiezō Kataoka, Ken Mitsuda

マライの虎

Koga Masato

Koji Nakata, Shōzō Nanbu

A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.

汗

Tomu Uchida

Koji Shima, Yasushi Yoshii

Sweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his clothes stolen by a tramp; dressed in the tramp’s clothes, he has to accept work as a labourer. As the hero ends up building the mausoleum he had himself commissioned.

Ikeru ningyō

Tomu Uchida

Isamu Kosugi, Takako Irie

Сатира на капитализм, в которой рассказывается о молодом человеке по имени Сэки, который поднимается в обществе путём обмана. Но действующая система в конечном итоге ему отомстит. Колоссальная машина современного на тот момент японского общества не настолько проста, чтобы ею мог управлять провинциальный юноша, подобный Сэки. Сэки, считавший себя гением карьеры, является всего лишь современным роботом. Он думал, что дёргает марионеток за ниточки, в действительности же дёргают за ниточки его.

唐人お吉

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yōko Umemura, Reiji Ichiki

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) by Digital MEME in 2007.

朝日は輝く

Seiichi Ina, Kenji Mizoguchi

Takako Irie, Joji Oka

The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, and documentary footage about newspaper production. Only 25 minutes of footage has survived.

藤原義江のふるさと

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yoshie Fujiwara, Isamu Kosugi

While returning by boat to Japan, Yoshie Fujiwara meets a rich woman who suggests him to become a singer thanks to an impresario friend of hers.

灰燼

Minoru Murata

Yuriko Hanabusa, Eiji Nakano

Jinsei Gekijo: Zankyaku hen

Yasuki Chiba

Chiezō Kataoka, Isamu Kosugi

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.